Feedback on album cover

[Han1]

Need feedback really fast before I send it tomorrow to my teacher.
Doing a mock brief on an album cover for a lo-fi indie brand. Cover needs a brain, colour, flowers, brand name and oragnic shapes/typography.
Teacher told me to not use any webiste elements, gotta do all by hand or digital.

Whaddya think?

[Smurf2]

Don’t send it.

[mluxgd]

In my own opinion, the purple is too flashy, the other colors seem to be fine, but the letters in black and “Pollen Brain” check other bands’ albums and see what the band name looks like. Anyway, is this the band’s name or is it the title of the album ?

[Han1]

It’s the band name. I didn’t choose it, my teacher did. So that I can’t change.
What colour do you think the flowers should be if not purple?
What colour do you think the letters should be, if not black?
Also, I need to send something bro

[mluxgd]

Hi Han1

I am going to give you an example :

Put the name on the top (Pollen Brain) and later the other stuff. The background of the album can be dark purple (not so flashy!), and the letters can be white to create contrast. If you need to create a combination of the colours, then you can use Adobe Colour Wheel. Here is the address: https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

For music bands, maybe you can look for a band name like “Deep Purple” and see their albums as an example. By the way, the problem is not the flowers; it is the background. Try to make it darker.

[Han1]

Ok I will try doing that
Just understand guys, I can’t change the name “Pollen Brain”. It was part of the brief my teacher created. Yknow what, I’ll send it to you guys so it makes more sense:

You work as a junior intern graphic designer for a small design firm. A lo-fi Indie band ‘Pollen Brain’ have asked you to design a vinyl album cover for their self-titled debut album release. The group have suggested some of the following, but feel free to add your own interpretation:
• colour! Loads of it!
• flowers
• A brain
• band name
• organic shapes and lettering
The target audience are indie music lovers between the age of 12 – 30.

some final ones other students made.
I have no idea what a lo-fi indie is, I’ve tried searching for examples and there isn’t really anything.

[Han1]

I need some organic shapes - tried to add some on the text. Changed the colours of the flowers because there was too much purple everywhere.

[mluxgd]

If you need to add some organic shapes, why don’t you add something like a brain (cauliflower) and then you combine it with a pollen flower ?, just catch the idea and combine both of them.